Agent & Broker

Two trade associations have joined forces in sending a mass e-mail to members of the captive insurance industry warning them of an Internal Revenue Service proposal that would eliminate tax benefits f

Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said the counties of Alpine, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Inyo, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Plumas, San Luis Obispo, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity C

Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation announced plans are underway to move 173,000 homeowners policies out of Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state's insurer of last resort, to four private

Traditional insurers will quickly lose business to capital market players if carriers don't work together to drive costs and inefficiencies out of their transactions by adopting data standards and

The role of the reinsurance intermediary in the United States has been tested in unprecedented ways in the last several years. Many of the challenges are the same as those affecting the financial

Controversies over disputed hurricane and flood claims, credit scoring, federal regulation and the industry's profitability will be among the hot topics debated by two heavyweights--Robert P. Hartwig,

In anecdotal comments from brokers as part of the survey, respondents noted that coastal properties with wind exposures, primarily in the Southeast, were beginning to ease a bit with some decreases

A loss estimate of $1 billion came from EQECAT, which noted that all of the major California brush fires (fires with extents greater than 10,000 acres) have been accompanied by similar wind